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Helen Kennedy reflects on the recent #tenyearchallenge trend. Looking at responses to the challenge, she considers what they tell us about the public understanding of data and the companies that utilise it. Drawing on qualitative and survey data on the levels of public awareness, she finds that what the public knows about data continues to be unclear.

Earlier this year MSc International Social Change and Policy student Eleanor Harris took part in the GLOSS Global Leadership Initiative and travelled to Buenos Aries, Argentina to cover the 2018 G20 Summit. She reflects on her experience here.

The Department of Sociological Studies is pleased to offer a £5,000 bursary to a student from the East Asia region that wishes to study the MSc International Social Change and Policy with us in 2019, thanks to a donation from Department alumnus CK Wong.

Congratulations to Professor Sarah Neal and colleagues for winning the Promotion of sustainable cities and communities category in the 2018 UN Day Media Award for their film ‘Foul Play: Are Clubs Killing Community Sport?’

Helen Kennedy from the Department of Sociological Studies will be joining other sociology experts at Whitehall on 22 November for the British Sociological Association Presidential Event 2018 DIGITAL FUTURES?

Professor Kate Morris, Dr Will Mason and Calum Webb from the University of Sheffield led the case study strand of the Nuffield Foundation funded CWIP research, which was later used to help form the analysis for the new APPGC inquiry into children's social care.

Find out more about the examples of great doctoral supervisory support provided by staff from across the Department of Sociological Studies including Professor Helen Kennedy, Dr Tom Clark, Dr Matthias Benzer and Dr Lorna Warren.

The Department of Sociological Studies is celebrating the news that undergraduate sociology courses at the University of Sheffield have risen to number two nationally in the Guardian University Guide 2019.

Dr Afua Twum-Danso Imoh is working together with a local musician to create an exhibition focusing on her latest research into Ghanaian childhoods, to be presented at Sheffield's annual Festival of the Mind this September.

The second annual lecture of the Journal Social Policy and Society was hosted at the University of Sheffield on 18th April and was sponsored by Cambridge University Press in association with the Noble Foundation.

In late 2017, Drs Warren Pearce and Suay Ozkula were invited to speak at the United Nations Climate Change conference, attended by international political leaders and activists, about how climate change is discussed on social media.